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I am well aware that many who embrace an expansive definition of anti-Semitism consider me anti-Semitic. To in any way criticize Israeli treatment of Palestinians is, in their light, anti-Semitic.

Many, ignoring that Palestinians voted for Hamas in the last election, in which the results were rejected by Fatah, Israel, and the United States, seek to distinguish Palestinians from Hamas. This is at least better than the genocide Israel wages against Palestinians and a refusal even to acknowledge their existence, preferring to refer to them as "Arabs."

But I can only see the Hamas attack in this context, as an arguably inevitable response to decades-long relentless erasure, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and both physical and structural violence. And I can only see those who sympathize with shocked Israeli civilians as sympathizing with settler-colonialist privilege and oppression.